that depends on workload. If you can afford it 4-6gb for general websurfing. 2-4 if you cannot. Its a matter of how well you want the system to perform, and what it will be doing.



On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 5:42 PM, Michael Havens <bmike1@gmail.com> wrote:
How much RAM is enough? How much should you allocate to windows? How much does Linux need? Mint17.1 is running currently using 2.3G with a terminal open and Chrome with 2 tabs open. 

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On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 5:07 PM, Mark Phillips <mark@phillipsmarketing.biz> wrote:

George,

if your computer has enough horsepower and ram, I would suggest not setting up a dual boot system, but instead run Windows in a vm - vmplayer or virtualbox. I have used dual booting with Linux and Windows for a long time, but once I started running windows in a vm, I was much happier. Fewer headaches and easier to switch between the two operating systems. Also easier to share data between the two operating systems.

Just my two cents.

Mark

On Jan 12, 2015 8:18 AM, "Matt Graham" <mhgraham@crow202.org> wrote:
On 2015-01-12 03:54, kitepilot@kitepilot.com wrote:
Clone your Window$ with:
mount -tntfs-3g /dev/sdb1 /mnt/sdb1
(cd /mnt/sda1;tar cf - .)|(cd /mnt/sdb1;tar xf -)

I thought that NTFS had a number of things like non-Unixy file permissions and alternate file streams that tar is not aware of and can't replicate.  I also thought that Windows still has a few things that require absolute sector positions, like the swapfile.  If it's possible to back up a Windows-on-NTFS drive with mount and tar, that's great--but I thought it was unlikely.

I have usually used partimage to back up and restore Windows partitions.  That works.  The downside is that it only does a partition at a time....

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